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ICP Orchestra in Seattle, WA
by Bill Bennett
ICP Orchestra Seattle, WA March 25, 2006 New Dutch Swing is the phrase coined by critic Kevin Whitehead - who wrote a book of the same name - to describe the music of the ICP (Instant Composers Pool) Orchestra, the Willem Breuker Kollektief, Bik Bent Braam and other members of the ...
Chick Corea Trio: Gatineau, Canada 04/26/06
by John Kelman
Chick Corea Trio Theatre, Casino du Lac Leamy Gatineau, Quebec April 26, 2006 On entering the theatre of the Casino du Lac Leamy for pianist Chick Corea's eagerly anticipated show, the first surprise was that, along with the grand piano, there was both a Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizer on ...
Su Concordu 'e Su Rosario
by AAJ Italy Staff
Firenze - Chiesa di S. Stefano al Ponte Vecchio - 7.4.2006 Per la Settimana di musica sacra dal mondo", organizzata nei giorni prepasquali dall'Accademia S. Felice di Fiesole nella splendida chiesa fiorentina di S. Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, assieme a numerose suggestive proposte ha trovato spazio anche la rappresentazione, assai infrequente, di un classico quartetto vocale ...
The Jazz Mandolin Project: Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
by Doug Collette
The Jazz Mandolin Project FlynnSpace Burlington, Vermont April 8, 2006 Because Jamie Masefield's independence is matched only by his artistic integrity, it was perhaps inevitable that, after a decade of working on his Jazz Mandolin Project, he would venture into the realm of multimedia. The first of two nights at ...
The Benevento/Russo Duo Live: What A Difference A Year Makes
by Doug Collette
The Benevento/Russo Duo Higher Ground South Burlington, Vermont April 8, 2006 It was exactly a year ago April 6th that Marco Benevento and Joe Russo appeared at Higher Ground in South Burlington to effectively celebrate the release of their breakthrough album, Best Reason to Buy the Sun (Ropeadope, 2005). ...
Impressions in Jazz/Black History Concerts: Ottawa: February 2006
by Alayne McGregor
Impressions in Jazz Voices in a Strange Land": Thursday, February 23, 2006 Suite Freedom": Saturday, February 25, 2006 Ottawa, Canada Jazz started out black. The great majority of the innovators and great musicians were black, and the roots of jazz are in early black music. The pictures, album covers and ...
The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band in Concert
by Victor L. Schermer
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Mellon Jazz Fridays The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia April 21. 2006 Quite frankly, jazz fans, I really don't know how to review this concert, other than to relate my impressions as they come to me. So much was going on. In aesthetics, there is a concept ...
Leena Conquest sings the songs of Dave Burrell
by AAJ Italy Staff
Café Procope - Torino - 21.04.06 L'edizione primaverile di Musica 90, giunta al sedicesimo anno, presenta tra i vertici della programmazione l'incontro tra due generazioni di artisti afro-americani. Il piano di Dave Burrell, figura storica dell'avanguardia free degli anni '60 e '70 (lo ricordiamo con Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray e, più recentemente, con David Murray) sostiene ...
Contaminazioni Contemporanee
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prima edizione, Bergamo, 21 - 23 Aprile 2006 Il panorama musicale bergamasco, già molto attento all'attualità con il festival Bergamo Jazz ed un importante festival pianistico in ambito classico, si arricchisce di un nuovo evento: il festival Contaminazioni Contemporanee. Una rassegna che, come dice il nome stesso, vuole gettare uno sguardo sulle musiche contemporanee, senza preclusioni ...
The Gathering Tradition
by Tod Smith
Tradition is powerful. Sometimes a return to the tradition is the only clear path to the future. For New Orleans, a city's whose recent troubled past has sometimes overshadowed a history rich in culture, its traditions can have healing, almost mystical powers. And so it was on this bright Sunday afternoon, that tradition brought together a ...

